“The Age of Sexual Consent” is a Bad Way to Fight Pedophilia
One of the main issues social conservatives in Canada and elsewhere have been championing has been the raising of the age of sexual consent – in Canada from 14 to 18. (It was raised to 16 a couple of years ago.) Sex with anybody below the age of consent was identified as pedophilia, a grotesque offense against vulnerable children.
The volume of the controversy over child sexual abuse by Catholic priests went up a notch with comments by a Catholic Cardinal blaming child sexual abuse on homosexuality rather than celibacy. He certainly upset the sensibilities of the world’s homosexual activists – not that it’s terribly hard to do that!
The pro-homosexual paper, The Vancouver Province, titled an April 14th article, “Vatican’s homosexual smokescreen stokes fire.”